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Mug shot of suspected bank robber released

El Paso County Sheriff's officials have released the mug shot of the suspect in an attempted bank robbery in Northeast El Paso Monday.

FBI agents and El Paso police arrested Jonathan Lee Read, 25, of the 5100 block of Raymond Telles on Tuesday afternoon.

Read, who is unemployed, faces a charge of bank robbery with a dangerous weapon. He has been booked into the El Paso County Jail without bond pending his first appearance in federal court.

Read is suspected of entering the Chase Bank at 5205 Wren at about 12:45 p.m. Monday and passing a note to a bank teller demanding money. Officials said he was wearing a Halloween mask and carrying a large black rifle and a plastic bag, but left the bank without any money.

 

Reuters: German robber nabbed after sending e-mail to correct details of bank heist

(Reuters) - A German bank robber led his pursuers straight to him after taunting police in an email over their efforts to catch him. Authorities in the southern city of Wuerzburg said on Wednesday the 19-year-old sent emails to police and two newspapers to point out factual errors in the report of his bank raid in the town of Roettingen a week ago.

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El Paso bank robberies map

El Paso's 14th bank robbery of the year happened this morning at the Federal Employees Credit Union at 9305 N. Loop. The map below shows all the bank robberies so far in 2010. Click on the marker for more info on each: